New Line founder and sometime director Bob Shaye takes "Mimsy Were the Borogroves," Lewis Padgett's very grown-up 1943 fantasy tale about childhood, and transforms it into an intelligent, imaginative children's adventure refreshingly free of rapping cartoon animals, fart jokes and mind-numbing special effects.
Clever, 5-year-old Emma Wilder (Rhiannon Leigh Wryn) and her 10-year-old brother, Noah (Chris O'Neil), are living relatively normal lives in suburban Seattle with their mom (Joely Richardson) and their lawyer dad (Timothy Hutton). That is, until one fateful Easter vacation. The family is vacationing at a beach house on Puget Sound's Whidbey Island whe...
Released:
2007
Rated:
PG
Length:
94 mins